Archanist Question(s)

[Shosasosa]

Your first question would be how to spell ARCANIST

[Wilan]

I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, it makes a lot more sense lore-wise and now the guilds will probably be more important. On the other, I'm restricted by which class I can start out with if I want to be from a specific city.

Actually, they've made it so (as I understood it from the interviews) that your starting city will be just.. the city in which you spawn in the game world. Instead of FFXI where you chose your allegiance knowing NOTHING of the game and only seeing a nice picture and a description of your city, XIV is taking a route where it puts you in the game, neutrally. Lets you experience the world, lets you visit all three cities, lets you know all three Grand Companies, makes you do quests for all of them, and only then, makes you choose your allegiance to a Grand Company and, with it, to a city state.

It is because there is no guild for dancer, rune fencer, scholar, ninja in this game so if they do add them they would need to be unlock only...

Ishgard, Ala Mihgo, Sharlayan. The three non-starting city states to be added in future updates/expansions could easily have other, different guilds. Say each of them has 2 to 4 combat classes guild, and maybe a gatherer/crafter guild too. There's plenty of room for adding new jobs.
Imagine travelling all the way to, say, Sharlayan, sign up for kendo classes at the local dojo-- eh, I mean, the samurai guild, and learn how to use a Katana, because in Limsa there's no bushido master to teach you. There you have it, you've just unlocked a new class.

[Yukagama]

they said arcanist was being in beta o.O they said summoner wasnt until after launch

I'hope Arcanist is one of the beta materials, that Yoshida is going to talk about in coming days.

[ZakarnRosewood]

Your first question would be how to spell ARCANIST

There Their They're, didn't mean to offend the grammar nazi's... lol, but thanks for pointing it out.

[Daniolaut]

Hmm its interesting to think about ARN/SMN being from Limsa. I'm not sure if it really fits. Most likely to me, it would seem more feasible for ARN to come from Ul'dah, because they study artifacts and incantations. For them to be accompanied with pirates and men/women of the sea just doesnt seem to fit. But yes, not many classes delve from the Sea port city of Limsa Lominsa, even though all but one DoM/DoW doesnt reign from Limsa, many DoH do.

As for the OP, I'm pretty sure it was confirmed Arcanist will be available only for release, where as Summoner was said it might not be ready for release. They werent specific as to anything regarding Beta, but you can be sure, once its ready you can pick that class at character creation screen.

(http://www.luxarcana.org/forums/mmorpg/topic6373.html bottom of the page under Misc.)

[Wilan]

There Their They're, didn't mean to offend the grammar nazi's... lol, but thanks for pointing it out.

Actually, when you don't use the correct letters to spell a word, you're making an orthographic mistake, not a grammatical one.




/sarcasm

[Shurrikhan]

Your first question would be how to spell ARCANIST

To check my memory:

Arcanist = user of the Arcane (essentially magic as a sheer amount of force, or else the pure strands of it, usually associated with knowledge of sourcing and manipulation as would be relevant to summoning and debuffing)

Archanist = I would guess to be user of very old things, generally a relic devicer, something of a cross between a Mechanist and a Scholar in tactics jobs terms

That about right?

I also agree that there will probably be something of a tie-in between the pace at which future classes and future city-states are added. That said, it would also seem likely that the same kind of guild might appear in different traditions in different cities. It seems hard to picture Ishgard without a Lancer and Archer's guild, but that would be stealing Gridania's thunder pretty badly. I wouldn't mind seeing a more obscure Ul'duhn bow tradition kept only by its merchant cavalry guard or the like. 2 shortbow styles, 2 longbow, since Gridania has both in God's Quiver. Something like that.

[Takeshi_Eiketsu]

Actually they could make it a quest to get the Book to equip as arcanist (To initially unlock the class, since it is U/U), and you can not equip higher level books because /drumroll please... They all REQUIRE a higher level to equip...so in essence you NEED to do the quest to obtain the book to unlock arcanist (and that quest could be 20...30...40...50...WHATEVER level they decide to make it...)
So the armoury system doesn't necessarily mean you can get the class without any epic event...as you can see it can be quite epic.

PS. Marauder is the only guild in LL at the moment...but if you remember, not only is there an arcanist guild there, but there is also the musketeer guild there (in the Coral Tower, on the north side of LL)

[Rukkirii]

Just wanted to pop in and answer the question about "unlocking" arcanist -- You won't need to fulfill any requirements in order to be able to play as an arcanist.

[Kirito]

Just wanted to pop in and answer the question about "unlocking" arcanist -- You won't need to fulfill any requirements in order to be able to play as an arcanist.

I see so we can assume it will be available as a starting class...